Reply #61: look, I have no idea what you are yammering about

[iverglas]

much less what point you think you are pounding.

It's as true today with guns as it was with alcohol in the past.

What's as true with guns today as it was with alcohol in the past is that enormous harm is being caused to a society and its members.

And decent people, people who are in fact radical in many ways in their efforts to create an inclusive, just society, were then and are now in the forefront of the struggle to reduce those harms.

Prohibiting alcohol wasn't the panacea. But you'll note that we now have content rules and labels for alcohol, significant regulation of the distribution of alcohol, all sorts of public education and information about harms associated with alcohol, and other social measures to address the harms associated with it a century ago that were what the temperance women were trying to address at the time.

You plainly don't like the idea of uppity women trying to protect women and children from the depredations wrought by men, be it as a result of their alcohol consumption or their gun play. Hard bananas.

Many social problems are not easily solved. Some people think it is worth looking for ways to reduce harm, and not simply throw up one's hands because after all, it's those root causes that have to be fixed. You don't give a shit. Your choice.